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i Campus Friday A d | Page 2 The Battalion Friday, April 1fl, Cont jn Class of '92 celebrates senior weekend Turning of Aggie ring symbolizes graduation, passage into "real world 7 By Sharon Gilmore The Battalion Texas A&M students will be coming togeth er for the last times during Senior Weekend '92. The events for the weekend began last night with the Senior Bash at the Texas Hall of Fame. Class council members said the events are meaningful and special. "It's our last event as a senior class," said Travis Burleson, a senior speech communica tions major. The Senior Banquet will be held Saturday at the College Station Hilton. Fred McClure, class of '76 and former leg islative aid to George Bush will be speaking at the banquet, said Tonya Yurgensen, senior banquet bash director. "It is such tradition," Yurgensen said. "It's the last big bang of your senior year." The Ring Dance, which is also Saturday, will be at 9 p.m in the Memorial Student Cen ter and Rudder Complex. At the Ring Dance, seniors will perform the traditional ring turn ing ritual. Price said, when passing through the ring replica, seniors turn their ring around so that it faces out for everyone to see what year they graduated. "The turning of the ring is a symbol of go ing out into the real world," said Stephen Dommert, a senior animal science major and Senior Weekend '92 committee member. Instead of attending the events, some stu dents just get the traditional ring picture taken, committee members said. "There are a lot of students who go and get pictures taken and don't go to the dance," Price said. Students are encouraged to get their Ring Dance pictures taken during the day when the See Ticket/Page 3 —. Because of numerous prob lems encountered by placing zero limits on all Spanish 101, 102, 201 and 202 classes taught in the FALL SEMESTER, the Department of Modern and Classical Languages has decid ed to open these classes to ev eryone on a "first come, first served" basis. On April 14, all Spanish 101, 102, 201 and 202 classes will be open for telephone registration until the sections are filled to capacity. Once limits are reached, registration will end. Please know that if an that, bi has already signed his or this poi name on a waiting list, heotfl; Gag* still must telephone regisienal, an< get into the class since all pr;versity ous waiting lists will be; In tl carded. some c This open registn: writing applies only to the had up semester; all summer Sprfered tl classes remain restrict 1991. graduating seniors, aBCag' students must come ti vvorkin; modern languages main all cour in Academic 219 ■ "I ca registration. some ci not app said. Dr. I May graduates hurry to complete resumes By Jayme Blaschke The Battalion Graduation is only a month away, and many seniors are find ing themselves scrambling to put together a resume at the last minute. Many students put off writing resumes as long as they can, and seniors aren't the only guilty stu dents, said Amy Petrik, desktop publisher with Kinko's Copies in College Station. "We've got a lot of seniors coming in now, needing resumes before graduation," Petrik said. "We also have juniors and sopho mores coming in, trying to get re sumes in time for co-oping, intern ships and summer jobs." "We also get a flood of stu dents in whenever there's a career fair on campus," she said. Waiting until the last minute is not the most productive way of putting together a resume, said Ron Winn, associate director in Placement Services at Texas A&M's Career Center. For the best possible results, students should start thinking about their resumes the day they step onto campus, not the day they step off. ^Most problems in resumes come from the quick fix," Winn said. "Students can go to the bookstore and get a book on re sume writing, but the examples given in the book look just like the examples in all the other books. "The real key is self-study and soul searching," he said. "The re sume is the student on paper and is a key marketing tool." When a student is preparing a resume, the first thing they should ask themselves is why they have chosen their major, and what they have done to prepare for it, Winn said. "Students should think about their academic preparation and how that fits in with their career goals," he said. "This is important because resumes are put together to give potential employers a rea son to invite the student to join their company." Another important item on re sumes is the job objective, Petrik said. Several years ago, objectives often were ignored but now are receiving more attention from po tential employers. "The objective has become much more important and is now much like a thesis to a term pa per," she said. "Employers are now looking for a well-defined objective more and more." Petrik said students can in clude anything in their resume that sets them apart such as com puter or photographic skills. "Include your skills even if it's not directly related to the job be cause employers want to know what you can do," she said. If a student needs assistance in putting together the resume, there is help available for them, Winn said. Placement Services, which is under the Career Center, offers advice to students who are unsure about the resume building pro cess. "We provide resume work shops several times a year at the career center, and students don't have to be seniors to attend," he said. "The student should get in volved as early as possible, be cause good resumes help in get ting internships and summer jobs, which in turn help in landing a permanent job after graduation," he said The Battalion USES 045-360 The Battalion is published daily except Saturday, Sunday, holidays, exam periods, and when school is not in session during fall and spring semesters; publication is Tuesday through Friday during the summer session. Second class postage paid at College Station, TX 77840. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Battalion, 230 Reed McDonald Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-1111. News: The Battalion news department is managed by students at Texas A&M University in the Division of Student Publications, a unit of the Department of Journalism. Editorial offices are in 013 Reed McDonald Building. The newsroom phone number is 845-3316. Fax: 845-2647. 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Dance Arts Society presents "Destination Dance" Tickets: $2. students $4. non-students Friday, April 10 th 8 p.m. Rudder Theatre Tickets available at the door Budget forces class cuts in English the C By Karen Praslicka The Battalion Department head appraises impact on teaching quality, required courses The number of class cuts for the fall has not been finalized, but one department head is con cerned about the potential effect the cuts could have in his depart ment. Dr. Larry Mitchell, English de partment head, said the depart ment faces cuts in the number of sections for some courses, which also affects teaching quality. "There will be drastic cuts in all of our service courses unless we can get help from some source to recoup the losses we suffered in the current budget cuts," he said. Mitchell said he has given an impact statement, which states the class cuts and how the de partment was affected by the budget cuts, to administrators. "I know they're concerned and will try to help us in any way," he said. Dr. E. Dean Gage, senior vice president and provost for aca demic affairs, said however, that no cuts are final yet, and he still is meeting with deans from all colleges. "We have some projections," he said. "But we're working with the deans at this point to look at making adjustments and shifts to at least get as close as we can to offering the same number of courses as last fall. The sum mer will have a few reductions, but not any major ones." Mitchell said this academic year was the first that the depart ment was able to accommodate freshmen students who regis tered for English 104, required freshman English, and students required to take ENGL 301, tech nical writing. However, during the summer and fall of 1992 the department will have enough sections of these courses to do so again, he said. "We tried to protect freshman English and technical wrili:l but we're at the bottomofia barrel," Mitchell said. "Werfl bad shape." In addition to 130 secfal various service courses the number of teaching assi has been reduced from89toJ for the fall. Gage said there are somecl demic departments showingil ficulties in offering thesial number of courses that they last fall, mainly in the Colley Science and Liberal Arts. These difficulties have determined using a prelims) budget proposal, and there;- no final determinations, hesai;| "One problem we have is mini; effort t< there w but the problen ■ "All ment p don't he go to for I The largest j majors i lege tea plus stu there ar said. ■ Parri been hai cutties c fee ted "Sine See A&M/Pa:;: Program to feature noted Jungian psychologist Lecture series to focus on dreams, dreamers By Matari Jones The Battalion Myths and dreams are voices of nature in which nature tries to become conscious of it self, said an internationally known analytical psychologist and guest lecturer visiting Texas A&M. "Dreams are private myths, and myths are public dreams," said Dr. Anthony Stevens, an analytical (Jungian) psychologist and author from England. "In our dreams we are speak ing to species, and the species answer back." Stevens will be lecturing this weekend at A&M about the natural world of the dreamer. The natural world of the dreamer is really the archetypal world, he said. "Archetypes are innate structures that guide us through the various stages of life," Stevens said. They are the basic and fundamental pat terns of behavior and conscious experience, he said. The characteristic behavioral actions be tween mother and child such as smiling and playing are examples of archetypes. "Every night when we go to sleep, we enter the archetypal world," he said. Stevens said what happens in our personal lives and the collective life of the species comes together during sleep. Animals update their strategy for survival during sleep by drawing on the collective wis dom of the species, he said. Also the fetus in the womb spends most of its time in the womb dreaming, Stevens said. This can be verified by rapid eye movement (REM) or an electroencephalogram (EEG). Stevens is sponsored by the Carolyn and Ernest Fay Lecture Series in Analytical! chology. The organization seeks to further the of the late C.G. Jung and enhance scholar! tivities related to analytical psychology,c nizers said. The lecture series begins \ofa\mdccntii, ues through Sunday. Tickets forthektaie ries are now available at the UniversityCenl Box Office. For more information on tickets contactt| psychology department at 845-0477. The following is a list of events: "Ther (the picti I This ) for pictu "The we'll ha\ | Add it slide sho i Pictur on up ha ’’ "We \ ago," Do The c irnprinte* "I like but they 1 : Friday, April 10 Introduction of Lecture Series by Steveis to 6:30 p.m. in the Clayton Williams Alim Center. 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Saturc I Lectui jknowabh T):30 a.m I Stevei ar chetyp dentals c deeply e: 3 Impetigo Study Individuals of any age with symptoms of impetigo (bacterial infection of the skin), to partidpate in an investigational drug research study using a cream with drug in it. $150 for those chosen and completing the study. 1 Tension Headache? Individuals with moderate to severe Tension Headaches wanted to partidpate in a 4-hour headache f ilief research study with an investigational medication in tut »t form. Flexible hours. $75 incentive lor individuals who ? i chosen and complete the study. Daily, till 6:30 776-0400 3 3. Asthma WANTED: Individuals, age 12-6 asthma to participate in a clinical r with an investigational medication i must be using inhaled steroids ar qualify. $400 incentive paid to tho ith mild to moderate rch study for 6 weeks talerform. Individuals onchodilators daily to ampleting the study. 3. % Skin Infection Study Individuals age 13 and older wanted to participate in a research study for bacterial skin infections such as: infected wounds,infected burns, boils, infected hair follicles, impetigo, infected ingrown toenails and others. Investigational oral antibiotic in capsule form. $100 incentive for those chosen who complete the study. ¥ For more information call: BIOPHARMA, INC. 776-0400